First ever battle between two autonomous naval drones 'won' by Ukraine thanks to a salvo from a remote weapon turret
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Autonomous systems are now fighting each other at sea—defense, shipping, and offshore energy operators need to assume contested, drone-heavy environments as the baseline. Any maritime infrastructure plan that ignores low-cost unmanned threats is underestimating both risk and required sensing/defense spend.
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